This guide shown you how to installing and configure Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Open Source Edition 8 as web mail server on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS machine. Zimbra Collaboration Suite an open source mail server is not just to send and receive emails but it’s a fully featured which includes easily manage and search large inboxes of emails using folders, tags, filters and conversation views in a rich, innovative user interface. It also have feature-rich AJAX web interface and is compatible with clients such as Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, and Novell Evolution so that mail, contacts, and calendar items can be synchronised from these to the Zimbra Collaboration Suite open source edition.

Zimbra is my email server solution of choice, because it’s very easy to install and configure, and the features you get are unmatched by other open source email solutions. Ubuntu Server 12.04 is the current Ubuntu Server Edition LTS, which will be supported for servers until 2017, so this is a great time to use it on a server you don’t want to have to take offline for frequent updates, like a mail server

After rebooting the server login again into your server then setup DNS records. edit file /etc/bind/named.conf.options

sudo nano /etc/bind/named.conf.options

options {
directory "/var/cache/bind";
// If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
// to talk to, you may need to fix the firewall to allow multiple
// ports to talk. See http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113
// If your ISP provided one or more IP addresses for stable
// nameservers, you probably want to use them as forwarders.
// Uncomment the following block, and insert the addresses replacing
// the all-0's placeholder.
forwarders {
8.8.8.8;
};
auth-nxdomain no; # conform to RFC1035
listen-on-v6 { any; };
};
zone "zimbra.ubuntuprecise.net" {
type master;
file "db.zimbra.ubuntuprecise.net";
};

Operations logged to /tmp/install.log.2666
Checking for existing installation…
zimbra-ldap…NOT FOUND
zimbra-logger…NOT FOUND
zimbra-mta…NOT FOUND
zimbra-snmp…NOT FOUND
zimbra-store…NOT FOUND
zimbra-apache…NOT FOUND
zimbra-spell…NOT FOUND
zimbra-convertd…NOT FOUND
zimbra-memcached…NOT FOUND
zimbra-proxy…NOT FOUND
zimbra-archiving…NOT FOUND
zimbra-cluster…NOT FOUND
zimbra-core…NOT FOUND
Error – zimbra user exists with incorrect home directory: /home/zimbra
Exiting
root@zimb-Vbox:/home/zimbra/Téléchargements/zcs-8.0.3_GA_5664.UBUNTU12_64.201303
05090204#

help me i don’t understand this message

Robot Chubby

Assuming you’re referring to this error:

“Error – zimbra user exists with incorrect home directory”

It’s because you have created a user named “zimbra”. Zimbra needs to create a user with this name during the install. See:

Excellent guide! But… I need change webmail port, no more SSL 443, use port 80, because always show ” There is a problem with the security certificate for this site.” You know how change it? Thank you! Best regards,

bbb

what is 192.168.40.2 ip address?

Riccardo Magrini

I’ve tried to install ZCS’s package in /opt directory on a virtual Ubuntu server with a size of / of 30GB but after I run the installer (./install) receive this error:

Checking required space for zimbra-core
Checking space for zimbra-store
/opt/zimbra requires at least 5GB of space to install.
3GB is not enough space to install.